I have always been confused about how to go about adding existing entities into another entities collection (i.e. linking to those entities in a many-to-many relation) through automations. The actions offered are: Add [Database] Item: This basically creates a whole new entity rather than searchin…

Just a small update - that was done and now it’s a native Automations action :slight_smile:

Link to Collection Item Action

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